“du –max-depth” alternative on Mac OSX

Ever hard to find obscure places where disk space is wasted on your Mac? If you’re accustomed to the Linux terminal, you’ll try this:

$ du -h --max-depth=1
du: illegal option -- -
usage: du [-H | -L | -P] [-a | -s | -d depth] [-c] [-h | -k | -m | -g] [-x] [-I mask] [file ...]

… but that doesn’t work on Mac.

So here’s a Mac alternative:

$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -mindepth 1 -exec du -hs {} \;

I try that --max-depth every. single. time.

Update: it’s even easier than that

Sure, the find line works, but turns out I’ve been missing a much easier shortcut here.

$ du -hd1

Lesson learned: blog about it faster! ^^